Written by Men: The Oldest Lie in the Book.

A Message to Believers…

Let’s put this tired, overused argument to bed once and for all: “The Bible was written by men, so it can’t be trusted.” Oh really? That’s your big gotcha? The Constitution was written by men—do you throw that out too? Every scientific paper, every history book, every social justice cause you believe in—written by men. So why the selective skepticism when it comes to Scripture?

The difference with the Bible isn’t who held the pen. It’s who gave the words.

Let’s break it down. The Bible wasn’t invented by man. It wasn’t the result of late-night brainstorming or ancient fiction writing contests. The Bible was recorded by men who were moved, inspired, guided, and in many cases, flat-out commanded by the Spirit of God to document His words, His works, and His will. Emphasis on recorded. These men weren’t authors in the modern sense. They were scribes, messengers—conduits of revelation.

You want proof? Fine. Let’s talk evidence—real, historical, academic, and archaeological. The existence of Jesus Christ is no longer even debated among serious scholars. Atheist, agnostic, Jewish, Christian—doesn’t matter. They all agree: He lived. He walked. He taught. He was crucified. And His disciples were real men who claimed they saw Him risen from the dead—and died saying it. You don’t die for something you know you made up. That’s not faith—that’s lunacy. And these weren’t lunatics. These were eyewitnesses.

Now let’s stack that with prophecy—over 1,200 of them, not vague fortune cookie one-liners, but detailed, history-shaping events foretold centuries in advance and fulfilled with brutal precision. Nations rising and falling. Kings named before they were born. The exact manner of the Messiah’s death. The dispersion of Israel—and the miraculous regathering of a nation that was dead for nearly 2,000 years and then reborn in 1948, exactly as Moses said it would happen. Show me another book on earth that can make claims like that and back them up. I’ll wait.

Let’s go to John 1:1, the verse that silences every argument at its root: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Let that hit you for a second. The Word—the Logos—the very essence of truth, logic, reason, and reality itself—is God. Not just from God. Not just about God. It is God. So when Scripture speaks, it’s not just ink on parchment. It’s divine revelation from the Author of time.

So no—the Bible isn’t “just a book written by men.” That’s an intellectually bankrupt excuse used by people who don’t want to deal with the accountability the Bible demands. God didn’t hand us a bound leather book from the sky. He chose to speak through people, in real history, in real cultures, using real language, so the message would be undeniable and accessible. That’s not a flaw. That’s divine strategy.

You can mock it. You can question it. But what you can’t do is explain it away with tired slogans and pseudo-intellectual memes. The Word of God has outlived empires, crushed ideologies, survived countless attempts at erasure, and still changes lives today with surgical accuracy.

The Bible is not man’s attempt to reach God. It is God’s successful attempt to reach man.

So next time someone says “it’s just written by men,” ask them this: What part of a living, breathing, prophecy-fulfilling, truth-revealing Word that reads you while you read it—looks like it came from man? Because the more you read it, the more obvious it becomes:

This book didn’t come from earth. It came from eternity.